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“Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.”

James Joyce book Dubliners

"A Painful Case"
Source: Dubliners (1914)
Context: One of his sentences, written two months after his last interview with Mrs. Sinico, read: Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

“People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“I think of you so often you have no idea.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone.”

James Joyce book Dubliners

Source: Dubliners

“Be just before you are generous.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear.”

James Joyce book Finnegans Wake

Source: Finnegans Wake

“Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory.”

James Joyce book The Dead

Source: The Dead

“I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers.”

James Joyce book The Dead

Source: The Dead

“A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.”

James Joyce book Finnegans Wake

Source: Finnegans Wake

“By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard it in an echo of the infuriated cries within him.”

James Joyce book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Absence, the highest form of presence.”

James Joyce

“I am other I now.”

James Joyce

“When I die, Dublin will be written on my heart.”

James Joyce

“Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.”

James Joyce book Dubliners

Source: Dubliners